Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Character

1.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

2.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

3.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

4.

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

Voltaire

5.

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

6.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.

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

8.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

10.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

James A. Froude

15.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

16.

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

17.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

18.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

19.

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

Angelou, Maya

20.

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

21.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Karr, Alphonse

26.

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

Collins, Marva

27.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

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.

29.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

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.

31.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

32.

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

Howell, Harry

33.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

34.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

35.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

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

38.

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

Peter The Great

39.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

42.

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

Seneca

43.

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

Solon

44.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

45.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

46.

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

Horace

47.

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.

48.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

49.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

50.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin