Motivational Quotes

Character

A rich man has no need of character.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Character

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

Voltaire

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.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Solon

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Crisp, Quentin

14.

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

15.

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

Lippmann, Walter

16.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

17.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

18.

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

19.

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

Freeman, Robert

20.

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

21.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Thomas, John M.

23.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

28.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

30.

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

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

35.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

36.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

37.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

38.

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

Hay, Colin

39.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Elihu Burritt

41.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

42.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

43.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Gill, Vince

46.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

47.

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

48.

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

Mason, John L.

49.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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