Motivational Quotes

Character

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

Hay, Colin

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.

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

Proverb

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

10.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

11.

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

12.

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

13.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

14.

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

15.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

16.

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

Lippmann, Walter

17.

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

Mason, John L.

18.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

19.

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

20.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

21.

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

22.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

23.

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.

24.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

26.

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

27.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

28.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

29.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

30.

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

31.

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

Marie Leneru

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Collins, Marva

36.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

39.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

41.

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

Joan Didion

42.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

43.

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

Guideposts

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

46.

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.

47.

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

Merikare

48.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

49.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

50.

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