Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Character

1.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

Reagan, Ronald

3.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

4.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

5.

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

6.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

8.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

9.

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.

10.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

11.

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

12.

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

Collins, Marva

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Crisp, Quentin

15.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Thackeray, William M.

18.

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.

19.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

20.

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

21.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

25.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

26.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

27.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

29.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

30.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

31.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

34.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

35.

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

Hermann Hesse

36.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

37.

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

Mohammed

38.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

39.

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

Horace

40.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

41.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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

Karr, Alphonse

43.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

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

Mason, John L.

46.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

48.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

49.

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.

50.

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.