Motivational Quotes

Character

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Thomas, John M.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

10.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

11.

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.

12.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

13.

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

14.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

15.

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

Francis Thompson

16.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

17.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

18.

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

Elihu Burritt

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

Marie Leneru

24.

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

25.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

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

27.

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

28.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

29.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

30.

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

Greeley, Horace

31.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

32.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

33.

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

Joan Didion

34.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

35.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

36.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

43.

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

44.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

45.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

46.

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

47.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

48.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

49.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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