Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Howell, Harry

Best Quotes about Character

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hay, Colin

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Thurber, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greeley, Horace

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.

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

10.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

11.

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

Merikare

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Reagan, Ronald

14.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

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

16.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

17.

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

18.

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

James A. Froude

19.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

20.

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

Proverb

21.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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.

24.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

25.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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

Leneru, Marie

27.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

30.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

32.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

33.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

34.

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.

35.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

37.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Freeman, Robert

39.

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

Horace

40.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

41.

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

42.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

43.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

44.

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.

45.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Voltaire

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

Hermann Hesse

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.