Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

2.

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.

3.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

4.

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.

5.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

6.

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

7.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

8.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Guideposts

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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

Elihu Burritt

14.

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

Solon

15.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

16.

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

Euripides

17.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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

22.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

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

Taylor, Bayard

24.

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

Collins, Marva

25.

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.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

27.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

34.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

35.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

36.

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

Peter The Great

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

41.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

43.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

44.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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.

46.

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

Angelou, Maya

47.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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

49.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

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

Leneru, Marie