Motivational Quotes

Character

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

3.

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

Peter The Great

4.

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

Mason, John L.

5.

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

6.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

7.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

12.

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

13.

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

Lippmann, Walter

14.

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

15.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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.

17.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

18.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

James A. Froude

22.

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

23.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

24.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

27.

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.

28.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

33.

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

Karr, Alphonse

34.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

35.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.