Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

3.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Seneca

9.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

14.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

15.

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

James A. Froude

16.

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

Estrange, L.

17.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

26.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

27.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

28.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

29.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

30.

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

31.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

32.

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.

33.

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

Freeman, Robert

34.

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

Howell, Harry

35.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Karr, Alphonse

37.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

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

Crisp, Quentin

40.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

41.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

42.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

43.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

47.

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

Taylor, Bayard

48.

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