Motivational Quotes

Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

Horace

3.

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

Thackeray, William M.

4.

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

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Hermann Hesse

7.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

9.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

13.

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.

14.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

15.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

16.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

17.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

18.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

19.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

21.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

22.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

23.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

24.

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

Thurber, James

25.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

26.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

27.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

35.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

36.

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