Motivational Quotes

Character

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

- Pandita, Saskya

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.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

8.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

9.

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

Buddha

10.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

11.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

12.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

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

Thackeray, William M.

15.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

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.

17.

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

Karr, Alphonse

18.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

21.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

24.

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

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

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

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Lippmann, Walter

29.

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

Hermann Hesse

30.

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

31.

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

Seneca

32.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

33.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

34.

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

Solon

35.

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

36.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

37.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

41.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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