Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Solon

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Crisp, Quentin

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

13.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

14.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

19.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

Elihu Burritt

23.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

28.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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.

30.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

35.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

36.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

37.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

38.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

39.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

41.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

42.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

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

Solon

44.

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

Michener, James A.

45.

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

Thackeray, William M.

46.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

47.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

48.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

49.

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

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

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