Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

2.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

3.

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

4.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

9.

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

Collins, Marva

10.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

16.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

21.

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

Joan Didion

22.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

23.

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

Elihu Burritt

24.

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

25.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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.

29.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

30.

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

31.

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

Michener, James A.

32.

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

33.

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

Solon

34.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

42.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

43.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

44.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

45.

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

46.

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

Freeman, Robert

47.

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.

48.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio