Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

10.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

18.

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

Greeley, Horace

19.

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

20.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

21.

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

Merikare

22.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

27.

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

Mohammed

28.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

29.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

33.

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

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Hermann Hesse

35.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Leneru, Marie

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

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

43.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

44.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

47.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

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

James A. Froude

49.

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

50.

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