Motivational Quotes

Character

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Character

1.

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

2.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

3.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

4.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

5.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

6.

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

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

9.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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

Leneru, Marie

15.

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

16.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

17.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

18.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

20.

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

Merikare

21.

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

Taylor, Bayard

22.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

23.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

24.

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

Gill, Vince

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

Michener, James A.

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

30.

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

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

33.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

34.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Euripides

38.

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

Hall, Manly

39.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

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.

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

44.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

45.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

46.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

47.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

48.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

49.

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

Thackeray, William M.

50.

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

Karr, Alphonse