Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Peter The Great

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

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

Hermann Hesse

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

7.

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

Estrange, L.

8.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

Seneca

10.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

11.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

14.

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

15.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

18.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

23.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

26.

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

Thurber, James

27.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

30.

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

31.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

32.

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

Lippmann, Walter

33.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

35.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

41.

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.

42.

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

Elihu Burritt

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Freeman, Robert

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

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

Mohammed

47.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

50.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur