Motivational Quotes

Character

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Joan Didion

2.

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.

3.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

4.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

5.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

6.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

7.

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

Crisp, Quentin

8.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Mason, John L.

11.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

15.

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

Chambers, Oswald

16.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

17.

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.

18.

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

Francis Thompson

19.

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

20.

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

Reagan, Ronald

21.

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

22.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

23.

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.

24.

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

Hermann Hesse

25.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

26.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

27.

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

28.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

29.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

30.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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.

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

Royal, Darrell

33.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

34.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

36.

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

37.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

39.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

40.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

Peter The Great

46.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

47.

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

48.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

49.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

50.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von