Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

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.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Francis Thompson

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

Marie Leneru

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Guideposts

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Euripides

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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