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.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

2.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

5.

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

Confucius

6.

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

7.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

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

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

12.

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

Chambers, Oswald

13.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

15.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

16.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

17.

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

18.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

19.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

20.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

Solon

22.

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

23.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

26.

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

Marie Leneru

27.

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.

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Merikare

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

34.

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

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

37.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

41.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

42.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

43.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

44.

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

45.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

46.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

47.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

48.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

49.

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

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