Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

Estrange, L.

2.

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

3.

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

Gill, Vince

4.

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

5.

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

Mohammed

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Proverb

9.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

10.

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

11.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

12.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

13.

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

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Thomas, John M.

18.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

19.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

21.

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

Seneca

22.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

23.

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

Peter The Great

24.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

25.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

26.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

28.

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

Collins, Marva

29.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

36.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

37.

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

38.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

39.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

40.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

41.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

42.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

47.

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