Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay

"A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.”

Karl G. Maeser

"New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities."

Norman Mailer

" . . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely, they will make or break you."

Marriott Hotels

"Tolerance is another word for indifference."

William Somerset Maugham

“What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.”

Zig Ziglar

“If you create a character, you create a destiny."

Andr Maurois

"A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him."

John C. Maxwell

"A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield."

David Oman McKay

"There is [a] spiritual strength derived from the subjecting of the physical appetite to the will of the individual. "He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than king." If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance."

David Oman McKay

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

John Albert Michener

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

James D. Miles

"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."

John D. Mitchell

"A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it."

James Moffatt

"The most vital test of a man’s character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat."

Raymond Moley

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."

John Baptiste Molire

"Character is what you are in the dark."

Dwight L. Moody

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."

John Lord Morley

"Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will."

Leo J. Muir

"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."

Jean Iris Murdoch

"Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick."

Lloyd John Ogilvie

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Thomas Paine

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."

Thomas Paine

"Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world."

Theodore Parker

"Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies."

Alexander Pope

"Most women have no characters at all."

Alexander Pope

"Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them."

Parley P. Pratt

"Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for."

Robert Quillen

"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows."

Charles Reade

“You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.”

Zig Ziglar

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;

Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;

Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character;

Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny."

Charles Reade

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

Ronald Wilson Reagan

"Calamity is the test of integrity."

Samuel Richardson

"A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another’s."

Jean Paul Richter

"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual."

Jean Paul Richter

"Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another."

Jean Paul Richter

"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

"The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them."

Walter S. Robertson

"I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character - not wealth or power or position - is of supreme worth."

John (Jay) Davison Rockefeller, IV

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers "The recent action of an eastern state's education department in eliminating from its curriculum all courses dealing in any way with moral ethics, on the pretext of complying with the Constitutional provision for the separation of church and state, is most disturbing. This is a repudiation of all responsibility for the building of character the true purpose of education."

Marion G. Romney

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."

R.C. Samsel

"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."

Herbert Samuel

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

Arthur Schopenhauerv

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

Lucius Annus Seneca

"In thy face I see

The map of honor, truth, and loyalty.”

William Shakespeare

"Men should be what they seem."

William Shakespeare

"A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock."

C. Simmons

"A certain bygone philosophy - which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child - used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training might write what they pleased. As a matter of fact, the child’s nature at birth, like that of a calf or a chick, is pretty well scribbled over by the experience of its ancestors. It is far from being blank, for as soon as the little organism comes into the world, it begins to do certain things and do them with much zeal and determination, as every one knows who knows real children."