Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

2.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

3.

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

4.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

5.

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

Voltaire

6.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

7.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

8.

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.

9.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

10.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Freeman, Robert

14.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

16.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Thurber, James

18.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

19.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

21.

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

Joan Didion

22.

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

Howell, Harry

23.

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

Maritain, Jacques

24.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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.

27.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

28.

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

29.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

37.

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

Lippmann, Walter

38.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

39.

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.

40.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

41.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

42.

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

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.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

46.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

48.

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

49.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Marden, Orison Swett