Motivational Quotes
Character
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Best Quotes about Character
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Plautus, Titus Maccius
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.
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
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Gaulle, Charles De
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
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
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
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.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
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
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders
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
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Horace
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
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
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Buren, Abigail Van
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
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
Pandita, Saskya
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
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