Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Thackeray, William M.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

11.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

12.

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

13.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

14.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

15.

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

Collins, Marva

16.

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

Howell, Harry

17.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

18.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

19.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

26.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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

28.

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

Thomas, John M.

29.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

30.

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

Crisp, Quentin

31.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

32.

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.

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.

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

35.

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

36.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

37.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

38.

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.

39.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

44.

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

Peter The Great

45.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character development is the aim of education.