Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

7.

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

8.

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

Joan Didion

9.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

11.

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.

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

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

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.

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

Confucius

16.

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

17.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

19.

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

Greeley, Horace

20.

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

21.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

22.

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

Guideposts

23.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Thurber, James

28.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

29.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

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

Hay, Colin

31.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

32.

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

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Hermann Hesse

35.

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

Collins, Marva

36.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37.

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

Michener, James A.

38.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

39.

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

Seneca

40.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

44.

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

Howell, Harry

45.

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

Gill, Vince

46.

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

47.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

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

49.

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

Euripides

50.

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

Buddha