Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

2.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

3.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

7.

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

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.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

11.

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

12.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

13.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

Maritain, Jacques

16.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

18.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

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

20.

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

23.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

24.

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

Thurber, James

25.

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.

26.

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

Hall, Manly

27.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

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

29.

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

30.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

31.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Thackeray, William M.

34.

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

35.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

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

Euripides

37.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

43.

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

Hermann Hesse

44.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

45.

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.

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

48.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

49.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman