Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Proverb

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

11.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Peter The Great

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

Mohammed

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

Hall, Manly

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Voltaire

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Francis Thompson

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua