Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is his fate.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Freeman, Robert

2.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Leneru, Marie

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

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

8.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

9.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

10.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Euripides

13.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

14.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

15.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

17.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

18.

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

19.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

20.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

27.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

29.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

30.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

33.

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

Thackeray, William M.

34.

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

35.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

36.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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.

38.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

39.

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

40.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

41.

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

Horace

42.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

43.

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

Solon

44.

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

45.

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

Michener, James A.

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

49.

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

50.

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

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