Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

10.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

15.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Thomas, John M.

17.

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

Francis Thompson

18.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

19.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

20.

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.

21.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

22.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

23.

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

James A. Froude

24.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

25.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

26.

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

Collins, Marva

27.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

29.

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

Freeman, Robert

30.

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

Crisp, Quentin

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

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

Mason, John L.

37.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

38.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

41.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

42.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

43.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

44.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

45.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

46.

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

Baldwin, Faith

47.

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

48.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

49.