Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

10.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

11.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

12.

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.

13.

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

Chambers, Oswald

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

18.

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

Gill, Vince

19.

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

20.

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

Maritain, Jacques

21.

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

22.

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

Merikare

23.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Leneru, Marie

29.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

32.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

33.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

36.

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

Freeman, Robert

37.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

38.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

42.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

43.

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

44.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

45.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

46.

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.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

48.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

49.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nathaniel Emmons