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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

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

3.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

4.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

6.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

7.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

8.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

10.

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

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

16.

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.

17.

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

Freeman, Robert

18.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

19.

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

20.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

23.

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

Elihu Burritt

24.

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

Peter The Great

25.

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

26.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

27.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

28.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

29.

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

Collins, Marva

30.

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

Mohammed

31.

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

32.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

33.

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

34.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

35.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

36.

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

Gill, Vince

37.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

38.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

39.

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

Reagan, Ronald

40.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

41.

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

42.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

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

Solon

44.

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

45.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.