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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Character Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Character

1.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

3.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion

4.
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

5.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John

6.
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

7.
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

8.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.

9.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin

10.
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

11.
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

12.
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

13.
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.

14.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul

15.
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman

16.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord

17.
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.

18.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

19.
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great

20.
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Milton, John

21.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell

22.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha

23.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.
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.

25.
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea

26.
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.

27.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Greeley, Horace

28.
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

29.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
Hume, David

30.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon

31.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David

32.
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.

33.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.

34.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse

35.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Buren, Abigail Van

36.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les

37.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Keller, Helen

39.
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

40.
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

41.
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

42.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

43.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

45.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith

46.
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

47.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald

48.
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus

49.
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.

50.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.


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