Motivational Quotes
Character
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.

Best Quotes about Character
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
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
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
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
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Maritain, Jacques
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
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
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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
We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John
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.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Macaulay, Thomas B.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
Smith, Roy L.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
Arran, Earl of
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Trotsky, Leon
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Lowell, James Russell
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha
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
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
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Covey, Stephen R.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts
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
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