Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Collins, Marva

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

10.

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

11.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

12.

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

Proverb

13.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

14.

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

15.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Royal, Darrell

17.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

18.

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

Lippmann, Walter

19.

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

20.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

22.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

23.

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.

24.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

25.

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

Hall, Manly

26.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

30.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

33.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

34.

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

35.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

36.

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

37.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

38.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

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

Mason, John L.

40.

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

Chambers, Oswald

41.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

42.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

43.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

44.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

45.

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

46.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

50.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August