Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Estrange, L.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Joan Didion

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

11.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

14.

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

Merikare

15.

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

16.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

17.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

19.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

20.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

26.

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

Hermann Hesse

27.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

Freeman, Robert

31.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

32.

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

33.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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.

35.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

43.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

44.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

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

47.

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

Marie Leneru

48.

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

49.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

50.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo