Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

11.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

12.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

16.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

17.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Mohammed

19.

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

20.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

21.

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

22.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

23.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

24.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

29.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

31.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

32.

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

33.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

34.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

35.

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

Howell, Harry

36.

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

Hay, Colin

37.

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

James A. Froude

38.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

39.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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