Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

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

Jefferson, Thomas

2.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

3.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

4.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

5.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.

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

7.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

8.

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.

9.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

10.

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

11.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

12.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

14.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Merikare

16.

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

17.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

24.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

25.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

26.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

27.

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

28.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

32.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

35.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

36.

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

Michener, James A.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Greeley, Horace

41.

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

Thurber, James

42.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Hall, Manly

44.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

48.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya