Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

2.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

4.

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

5.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Maritain, Jacques

8.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

9.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

10.

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

Royal, Darrell

11.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

13.

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

14.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.

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

17.

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

Freeman, Robert

18.

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

Howell, Harry

19.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

20.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

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

Proverb

22.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

23.

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

Mohammed

24.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

26.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

27.

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

Buddha

28.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

29.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

30.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

31.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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.

33.

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

Karr, Alphonse

34.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

36.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

40.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

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

Taylor, Bayard

43.

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

Chambers, Oswald

44.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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.

47.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Hepburn, Katharine