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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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.

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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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

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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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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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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

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham