Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Character

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

Seneca

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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.

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Freeman, Robert

21.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

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

23.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

28.

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

29.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

30.

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

Mason, John L.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

34.

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

Merikare

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

38.

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.

39.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

42.

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

43.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

44.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

45.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

50.

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