Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

2.

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.

3.

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

Seneca

4.

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

Baldwin, Faith

5.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

6.

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

7.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

8.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Greeley, Horace

12.

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

13.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

14.

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

15.

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

Hay, Colin

16.

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

Guideposts

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

19.

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

Royal, Darrell

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

23.

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

24.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

27.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

32.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

33.

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

34.

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

Buddha

35.

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

36.

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

Elihu Burritt

37.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

38.

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

Solon

39.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

40.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

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

Hermann Hesse

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

44.

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

45.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

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

Freeman, Robert

47.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

48.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

49.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

50.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques