Motivational Quotes

Character

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Hay, Colin

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

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

12.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

17.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18.

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

19.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

20.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Leneru, Marie

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

24.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

26.

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

Seneca

27.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

31.

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

32.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

33.

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.

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Solon

37.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

38.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

39.

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

Marie Leneru

40.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

41.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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