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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bible

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

Guideposts

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

Leneru, Marie

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Marie Leneru

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

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb

18.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

19.

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

20.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

21.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Crisp, Quentin

24.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

27.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

28.

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

Howell, Harry

29.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

30.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

33.

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.

34.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

35.

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

Chambers, Oswald

36.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Peter The Great

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Collins, Marva

41.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

42.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Chesterfield, Lord