Motivational Quotes

Character

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

4.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

5.

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

6.

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

Joan Didion

7.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

8.

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

9.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

12.

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

13.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

14.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

15.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

16.

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

17.

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

18.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

19.

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

Michener, James A.

20.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

21.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

22.

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

Chambers, Oswald

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

27.

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

Collins, Marva

28.

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

Royal, Darrell

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

31.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

32.

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

Guideposts

33.

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

Leneru, Marie

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

36.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

37.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

38.

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

39.

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

Hay, Colin

40.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

41.

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.

42.

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

Thomas, John M.

43.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

44.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

45.

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

Mason, John L.

46.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

49.

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

Merikare

50.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.