Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

2.

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

Lippmann, Walter

3.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Hall, Manly

6.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

7.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

8.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

9.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

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.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14.

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

15.

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

Freeman, Robert

16.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

17.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

18.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

21.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

22.

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

Brown, Les

23.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

24.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

26.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

29.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

30.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

31.

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

32.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

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

Euripides

38.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

39.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

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

Horace

41.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

42.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

Solon

48.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

49.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

50.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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