Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

1.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

2.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

3.

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

Gill, Vince

4.

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

Michener, James A.

5.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

6.

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

Joan Didion

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

9.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

10.

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12.

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

Elihu Burritt

13.

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.

14.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

15.

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

Seneca

16.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

17.

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.

18.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

25.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

26.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

32.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

33.

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

Guideposts

34.

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

Leneru, Marie

35.

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.

36.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

37.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

38.

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

39.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

42.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

44.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

45.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

46.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

48.

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

Freeman, Robert