Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

2.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

3.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

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

Seneca

5.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

6.

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

Guideposts

7.

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

Gill, Vince

8.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

9.

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

Thomas, John M.

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

15.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

16.

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

Karr, Alphonse

17.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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.

20.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

21.

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

22.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

23.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

Greeley, Horace

26.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

29.

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.

30.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

31.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

35.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

36.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Reagan, Ronald

40.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

43.

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

James A. Froude

44.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

46.

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

47.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

50.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.