Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

2.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

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

4.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

5.

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

6.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

7.

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.

8.

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

Maritain, Jacques

9.

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

10.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

11.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

12.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

14.

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

15.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

16.

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

Merikare

17.

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

Hay, Colin

18.

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

Mohammed

19.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

20.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

21.

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

22.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

23.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

29.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

32.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

33.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

34.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

36.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

38.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

39.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

40.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

41.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

44.

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

45.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

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

Seneca

47.

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

48.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

49.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

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.