Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

2.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

3.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

4.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

5.

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

Freeman, Robert

6.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

7.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

8.

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

Leneru, Marie

9.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

10.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

Lippmann, Walter

16.

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

17.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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.

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

21.

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

22.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

23.

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

24.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

27.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

31.

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

Hay, Colin

32.

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.

33.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

34.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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.

42.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

45.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

46.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

47.

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

48.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.