Motivational Quotes

Character

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Character

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

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

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

13.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

14.

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

Maritain, Jacques

15.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

16.

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

17.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

19.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

20.

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.

21.

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

Elihu Burritt

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

25.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

26.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

30.

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

Michener, James A.

31.

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

32.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mason, John L.

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

39.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

40.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

46.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

47.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

48.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

49.

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

50.

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

Karr, Alphonse