Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

10.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

11.

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

12.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

13.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

17.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Taylor, Bayard

19.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

20.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

21.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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.

24.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

26.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

27.

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

Peter The Great

28.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

29.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

32.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

34.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

35.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

36.

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

Guideposts

37.

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

38.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

41.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

42.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

43.

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

Karr, Alphonse

44.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

49.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

50.

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

Thackeray, William M.