Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

James A. Froude

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

10.

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

11.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

12.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

13.

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

Thackeray, William M.

14.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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.

18.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

21.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

25.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

26.

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

27.

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

Leneru, Marie

28.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

29.

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

30.

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

31.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

36.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Collins, Marva

38.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

39.

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

40.

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

Baldwin, Faith

41.

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

Euripides

42.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

43.

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

44.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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.

48.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

49.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

50.

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

Greeley, Horace