Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Maritain, Jacques

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Hall, Manly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

12.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

13.

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

14.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

James A. Froude

17.

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

Royal, Darrell

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

22.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

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

24.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

25.

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

Peter The Great

26.

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

27.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

28.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Maritain, Jacques

34.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

35.

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

36.

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

Reagan, Ronald

37.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

38.

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

39.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

40.

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

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.

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.

43.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.

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