Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

1.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

3.

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

Reagan, Ronald

4.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

5.

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

6.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

7.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

8.

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

Peter The Great

9.

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

10.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

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.

15.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

17.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

18.

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

19.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

20.

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

Mason, John L.

21.

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

22.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Merikare

24.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

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

Thackeray, William M.

26.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

27.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

28.

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

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

Michener, James A.

31.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

33.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

34.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

35.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

36.

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

Thomas, John M.

37.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Guideposts

39.

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