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

Best Quotes about Character
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
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
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
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
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
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
Virgil
It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.
Howell, Harry
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.
Francis, Clarence
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Bounds, E. M.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.
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
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
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.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
Boardman, George D.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
Eliot, George
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
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