Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Karr, Alphonse

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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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

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Mohammed

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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 be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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.