Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is his fate.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

2.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

3.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

4.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

5.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

6.

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.

7.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

8.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

9.

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.

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

13.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

19.

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.

Wooden, John

20.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

21.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

23.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

24.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

25.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

26.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

27.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

28.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

29.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Karr, Alphonse

35.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

38.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

39.

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

40.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

41.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

Lippmann, Walter

44.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

46.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

49.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

50.

Character is a victory, not a gift.