Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Merikare

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Peter The Great

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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