Motivational Quotes

Character

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Character

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

10.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

11.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

12.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

13.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

14.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

15.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

16.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

17.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

20.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

22.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

24.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

25.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

27.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

29.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

30.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

32.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

33.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

34.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

38.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

39.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

41.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

43.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

44.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

45.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

46.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

47.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

48.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

50.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya