Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Mohammed

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Horace

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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.

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

Marie Leneru

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Guideposts

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur