Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

2.

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

Merikare

3.

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

Greeley, Horace

4.

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

5.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

6.

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

7.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

9.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Karr, Alphonse

11.

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.

12.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

13.

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

14.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

15.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

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

20.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

21.

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

22.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

23.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

24.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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.

27.

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

Joan Didion

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Leneru, Marie

31.

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

Chambers, Oswald

32.

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

33.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Royal, Darrell

35.

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

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo