Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Horace

2.

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

3.

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

Voltaire

4.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

5.

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

Hall, Manly

6.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

7.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

8.

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

Guideposts

9.

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

10.

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

Lippmann, Walter

11.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

12.

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

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

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

Proverb

17.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

19.

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

Chambers, Oswald

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

24.

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

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

27.

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

28.

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

Confucius

29.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

31.

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

Gill, Vince

32.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

33.

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

Crisp, Quentin

34.

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

Thackeray, William M.

35.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Howell, Harry

39.

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

Marie Leneru

40.

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

Mason, John L.

41.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

42.

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

43.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

49.

Character is a victory, not a gift.