Motivational Quotes

Character

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Best Quotes about Character

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

2.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

4.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

5.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

6.

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

Thomas, John M.

7.

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

Hall, Manly

8.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

13.

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

Peter The Great

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

17.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

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

19.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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.

22.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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.

25.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

26.

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.

27.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

31.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

Solon

37.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

38.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

39.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

40.

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

41.

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

Hermann Hesse

42.

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

43.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

44.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

45.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

46.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Bible

49.

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.