Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

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

Seneca

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

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

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

10.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

12.

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

Taylor, Bayard

13.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

17.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

18.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

19.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

20.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

21.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

24.

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

Karr, Alphonse

25.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

26.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

28.

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

29.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Bible

35.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

37.

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

Royal, Darrell

38.

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

Horace

39.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

40.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

41.

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.

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

49.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

50.

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

Joan Didion