Motivational Quotes

Character

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Character

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

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

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

Leneru, Marie

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Merikare

13.

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

14.

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

Marie Leneru

15.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

16.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17.

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

18.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

Baldwin, Faith

22.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

23.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

30.

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

Karr, Alphonse

31.

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.

32.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

36.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

37.

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

Lippmann, Walter

38.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

42.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

43.

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

Joan Didion

44.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

46.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

47.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

48.

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

49.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

50.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett