Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

1.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

2.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

3.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

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

Francis Thompson

6.

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

Euripides

7.

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

Lippmann, Walter

8.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

9.

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

10.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

11.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

12.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

13.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

14.

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

15.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

16.

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

Freeman, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

19.

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

Guideposts

20.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

21.

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

22.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

24.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

25.

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

26.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

30.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

35.

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

Leneru, Marie

36.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

37.

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

38.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Royal, Darrell

41.

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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

49.

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

Michener, James A.

50.

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

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