Motivational Quotes

Character

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

- Francis Thompson

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Freeman, Robert

2.

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

Hermann Hesse

3.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

5.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

6.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

7.

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.

8.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

9.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

10.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

11.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

12.

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

13.

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

Maritain, Jacques

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

17.

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

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

20.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

22.

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

Baldwin, Faith

23.

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

Karr, Alphonse

24.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Marie Leneru

28.

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

29.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

31.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

32.

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

Elihu Burritt

33.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Lippmann, Walter

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Hall, Manly

37.

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

Michener, James A.

38.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

39.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

40.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

41.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

42.

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

Thomas, John M.

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Peter The Great

45.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

46.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

48.

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

Merikare

49.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

50.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.