Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bible

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

Buddha

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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.

13.

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

Baldwin, Faith

14.

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

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

17.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

18.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

19.

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

Taylor, Bayard

20.

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

Marie Leneru

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

23.

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

Howell, Harry

24.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

25.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

26.

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

27.

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

Gill, Vince

28.

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

Solon

29.

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

30.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Hall, Manly

34.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

35.

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

Elihu Burritt

36.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

40.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

41.

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

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