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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Greeley, Horace

12.

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

13.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

14.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

18.

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

Proverb

19.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

20.

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.

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

23.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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.

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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.

29.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

30.

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

31.

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

Karr, Alphonse

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

34.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

37.

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

Bible

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

Royal, Darrell

41.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

42.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

44.

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.

45.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

46.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

47.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

48.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.