Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is his fate.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Maritain, Jacques

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mason, John L.

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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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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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

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.