Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Nathaniel Emmons

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

6.

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

7.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

8.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Thackeray, William M.

11.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

12.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

13.

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

James A. Froude

14.

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

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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

16.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

17.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

18.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

19.

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

Mason, John L.

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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.

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Thurber, James

28.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

29.

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

30.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

31.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

33.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Marie Leneru

38.

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

39.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

40.

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

41.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

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

Confucius

47.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

48.

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.

49.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

50.

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