Motivational Quotes

Character

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

- George Santayana

Best Quotes about Character

1.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

2.

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.

3.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

4.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

5.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

6.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

7.

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

8.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

12.

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

13.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

14.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

15.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

16.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

17.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

18.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

19.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

20.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

21.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

23.

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

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

26.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

30.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

31.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

35.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

38.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

39.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

40.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

41.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

43.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

45.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

48.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

49.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders