Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buddha

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

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Francis Thompson

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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