Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is victory organized.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Merikare

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Peter The Great

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Guideposts

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Gill, Vince

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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.

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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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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Chambers, Oswald