Motivational Quotes

Character

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

- Guideposts

Best Quotes about Character

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Freeman, Robert

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Taylor, Bayard

10.

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

11.

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

Elihu Burritt

12.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

13.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

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.

15.

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

Solon

16.

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

17.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

20.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

21.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

23.

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

24.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

25.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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

Leneru, Marie

27.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

28.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

29.

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

30.

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

31.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

35.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

36.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

39.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

41.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.

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