Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Horace

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Freeman, Robert

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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.

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

16.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

17.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

18.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Thackeray, William M.

20.

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

Crisp, Quentin

21.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

22.

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

Royal, Darrell

23.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

25.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

29.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

30.

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

31.

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

Guideposts

32.

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.

33.

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

Thomas, John M.

34.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

35.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Mason, John L.

37.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

38.

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

Collins, Marva

39.

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

40.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

41.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

42.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

44.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.

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

Joan Didion

47.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

48.

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

49.

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

Seneca

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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