Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

2.

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

Royal, Darrell

3.

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

4.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

5.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

6.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

7.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

8.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

9.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

14.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

15.

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

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Leneru, Marie

18.

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

Merikare

19.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

20.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

21.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

22.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

24.

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

Freeman, Robert

25.

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

Gill, Vince

26.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Elihu Burritt

29.

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

Hay, Colin

30.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

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

32.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

33.

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

Joan Didion

34.

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

35.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

36.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

37.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Angelou, Maya

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

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

44.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

48.

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

49.

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

Hermann Hesse

50.

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

Shakespeare, William