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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Francis Thompson

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

10.

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

11.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

12.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

15.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

18.

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

19.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

20.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

27.

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

28.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Michener, James A.

33.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

39.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

40.

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

Chambers, Oswald

41.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Karr, Alphonse

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Elihu Burritt

47.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

48.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

49.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hay, Colin

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