Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

- Fitzwater, P. B.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

10.

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

Proverb

11.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

12.

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

13.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

14.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

15.

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

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

24.

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

25.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

28.

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

29.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

30.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

31.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

33.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

34.

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

35.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

36.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

37.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

38.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

39.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

44.

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

45.

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

Elmer G. Letterman