Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

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

Gill, Vince

3.

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

Thurber, James

4.

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

5.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

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.

7.

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

Lippmann, Walter

8.

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.

9.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

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

Thomas, John M.

12.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Confucius

20.

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.

21.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

24.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

25.

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

26.

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

Guideposts

27.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Collins, Marva

29.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

30.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Merikare

32.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

33.

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

34.

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

35.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

36.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

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

Karr, Alphonse

42.

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.

43.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

44.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

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

46.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)