Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Proverb

2.

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

Confucius

3.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

4.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

5.

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

Howell, Harry

6.

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

Taylor, Bayard

7.

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

Euripides

8.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

14.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

15.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

16.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

18.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

19.

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

20.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

21.

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

22.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

23.

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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

26.

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

James A. Froude

27.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

28.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

29.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

30.

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

31.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

32.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

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

Bible

36.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

37.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

38.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

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.

42.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

43.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

45.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

46.

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

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Crisp, Quentin

49.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

50.

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

Gill, Vince

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