Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Marie Leneru

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hermann Hesse

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hall, Manly

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