Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Horace

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.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

12.

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

Gill, Vince

13.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14.

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

15.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

16.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

17.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Solon

22.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

23.

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.

24.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Maritain, Jacques

29.

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.

30.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

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

37.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

38.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

39.

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

Collins, Marva

40.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

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

Guideposts

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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.

48.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

49.

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

Thurber, James

50.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De