Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

2.

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

3.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

4.

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

5.

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

Karr, Alphonse

6.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

7.

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

Greeley, Horace

8.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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.

11.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

12.

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

Freeman, Robert

13.

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.

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

Lippmann, Walter

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

18.

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

19.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

20.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

21.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

22.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

23.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

24.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

25.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

30.

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.

31.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

34.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

35.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

36.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

37.

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

38.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

44.

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

Michener, James A.

45.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

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

Hermann Hesse

47.

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

48.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

49.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

50.

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.