Motivational Quotes

Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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.

2.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

3.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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.

5.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

6.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

7.

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

Chambers, Oswald

8.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

9.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Mason, John L.

20.

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

21.

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

Hay, Colin

22.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

23.

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

24.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

25.

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

Confucius

26.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

27.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

28.

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

29.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

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

Lippmann, Walter

32.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

33.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

36.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

37.

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

Reagan, Ronald

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

Karr, Alphonse

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

47.

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

48.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

49.

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

Joan Didion

50.

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.