Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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

Joan Didion

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Gill, Vince

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Peter The Great

10.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

15.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

16.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

17.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Merikare

19.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

20.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

21.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

22.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

23.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

24.

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.

25.

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

Aristotle

26.

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

27.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

28.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

30.

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

31.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

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

Elihu Burritt

38.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

39.

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

Hermann Hesse

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

43.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

44.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

46.

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

47.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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