Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Gill, Vince

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

5.

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

6.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

7.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

8.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

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

Crisp, Quentin

10.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

11.

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

Karr, Alphonse

12.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

15.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

22.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

23.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

24.

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

25.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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.

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.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

29.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

30.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

31.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

32.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

34.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

37.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

38.

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

Reagan, Ronald

39.

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

Taylor, Bayard

40.

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

Peter The Great

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

45.

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

Merikare

46.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

Integrity has no need of rules.