Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Baldwin, Faith

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hermann Hesse

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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Merikare

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders