Motivational Quotes
Character
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.

Best Quotes about Character
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
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Shakespeare, William
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
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
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William
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
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Sivananda, Sri Swami
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
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.
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
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
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Trotsky, Leon
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.
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Bounds, E. M.
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb
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
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Pandita, Saskya
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
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
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.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
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.
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon
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
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Greeley, Horace
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
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