Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.

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

3.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

4.

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

5.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

6.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Hay, Colin

10.

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

11.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

12.

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

13.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

20.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

Joan Didion

22.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

27.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

30.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

31.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Leneru, Marie

34.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

37.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Confucius

43.

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

Solon

44.

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

45.

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

Chambers, Oswald

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Thackeray, William M.

48.

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