Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

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

Greeley, Horace

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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.

10.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

11.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

12.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

13.

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

Chambers, Oswald

14.

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

15.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

17.

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

Joan Didion

18.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

19.

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

Maritain, Jacques

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

23.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

24.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

25.

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

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

28.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

30.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

31.

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

32.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

33.

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

Howell, Harry

34.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

35.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

36.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

38.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

39.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

40.

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

Collins, Marva

41.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

42.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

43.

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

44.

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

45.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

46.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb