Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bible

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

Gill, Vince

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Elihu Burritt

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

14.

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

Buddha

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

17.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

21.

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

22.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

23.

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.

24.

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

Royal, Darrell

25.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Hall, Manly

27.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

28.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

29.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Francis Thompson

36.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

37.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

38.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

39.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

40.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

41.

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

Thackeray, William M.

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

44.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

45.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

46.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Hay, Colin