Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

2.

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

Thackeray, William M.

3.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

4.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

5.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

12.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

13.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

15.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

17.

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

Buddha

18.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

20.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Horace

24.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

28.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.

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

30.

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

Elihu Burritt

31.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

32.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

39.

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

40.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

41.

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

Michener, James A.

42.

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

Estrange, L.

43.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

46.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

47.

A rich man has no need of character.