Motivational Quotes
Character
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Best Quotes about Character
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
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.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Sivananda, Sri Swami
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
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
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible
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
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
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
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
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
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
Richard Greenberg
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Covey, Stephen R.
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony
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
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.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
Virgil
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha
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
Character is a victory, not a gift.
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
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.
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