Motivational Quotes

Character

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

- Guideposts

Best Quotes about Character

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Character is a victory, not a gift.

10.

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.

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

14.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

17.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

19.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

20.

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

Brown, Les

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Joan Didion

27.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

28.

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

Mohammed

29.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

30.

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

Royal, Darrell

31.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

32.

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.

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

35.

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

Solon

36.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

38.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

39.

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

40.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

41.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

42.

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.

43.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

45.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

46.

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

Lippmann, Walter

47.

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

Michener, James A.

48.

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

49.

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

Marie Leneru

50.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude