Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Mohammed

2.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

3.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

4.

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

Maritain, Jacques

5.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

6.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

7.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

9.

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

Elihu Burritt

10.

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

11.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

16.

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

17.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

20.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

21.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

22.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

23.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

24.

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

25.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

26.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

27.

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.

28.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

29.

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

Hay, Colin

30.

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

Reagan, Ronald

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

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

Bible

34.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

39.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

40.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

41.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

42.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

43.

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.

44.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

45.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

46.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

47.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

48.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

49.

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

50.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton