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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Character Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Character

1.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony

2.
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Thackeray, William M.

3.
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie

4.
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.

5.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul

6.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell

8.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

9.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

10.
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

11.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander

12.
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

13.
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

14.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince

15.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David

16.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.

17.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald

18.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix

19.
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

20.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
James, William

21.
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

22.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin

23.
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt

24.
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.

25.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Wooden, John

26.
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
Eliot, George

27.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert

28.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

29.
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

31.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius

33.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

34.
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.

35.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham

36.
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

37.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin

38.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David

39.
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.

40.
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.
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

42.
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle

43.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
James, William

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

48.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua

49.
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

50.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude


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