Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Bible

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Confucius

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

10.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

11.

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

Estrange, L.

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

14.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

15.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

17.

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

18.

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

Mason, John L.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

Hay, Colin

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

39.

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

40.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

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

42.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

43.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.