Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

Mohammed

4.

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

5.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

6.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

7.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

9.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

James A. Froude

11.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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

Taylor, Bayard

13.

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.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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.

16.

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

Peter The Great

17.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

18.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

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

20.

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

Gill, Vince

21.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

22.

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

Howell, Harry

23.

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

Bible

24.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

25.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

26.

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.

27.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Greeley, Horace

30.

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

31.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

32.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

33.

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

34.

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

Reagan, Ronald

35.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

36.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

37.

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

Angelou, Maya

38.

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

Francis Thompson

39.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

41.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

42.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

44.

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

45.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius