Motivational Quotes

Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Joan Didion

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

10.

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

Royal, Darrell

11.

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

Thurber, James

12.

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

13.

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

Howell, Harry

14.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

15.

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

Francis Thompson

16.

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.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

24.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

25.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

27.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

35.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

36.

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

37.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Karr, Alphonse

40.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

47.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

48.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

49.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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