Motivational Quotes

Character

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mason, John L.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Mohammed

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

Horace

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Greeley, Horace

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Seneca

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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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.

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Francis Thompson

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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.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hermann Hesse

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg