Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is his fate.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hermann Hesse

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

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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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 measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Leneru, Marie

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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