Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

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Best Quotes about Character

1.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

2.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

3.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

4.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

6.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

7.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

8.

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

Royal, Darrell

9.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

10.

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

11.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

Francis Thompson

16.

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

Hall, Manly

17.

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

Hermann Hesse

18.

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

19.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

21.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

22.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

26.

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

Crisp, Quentin

27.

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

28.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

29.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

32.

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

33.

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

Mohammed

34.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

35.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

36.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

37.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

38.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

39.

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

40.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

41.

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

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

43.

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

44.

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

Euripides

45.

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

46.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

47.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

48.

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

Bible

49.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

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

Marie Leneru