Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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.

2.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

6.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

7.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

9.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

10.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

12.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

13.

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

Voltaire

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

Freeman, Robert

15.

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

16.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

17.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

18.

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

Gill, Vince

19.

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

James A. Froude

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

24.

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

25.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

26.

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

Marie Leneru

27.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

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

Mason, John L.

29.

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

30.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

31.

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

Thurber, James

32.

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

33.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Hermann Hesse

35.

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

Guideposts

36.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

37.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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.

40.

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

Merikare

41.

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

42.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

43.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

45.

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

Thackeray, William M.

46.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

47.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.