Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Estrange, L.

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

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

11.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

13.

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

14.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

15.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

22.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

23.

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

Buddha

24.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

29.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

30.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

35.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

36.

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

37.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

38.

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

39.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

43.

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

Collins, Marva

44.

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

Solon

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

50.

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