Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

10.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

12.

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

15.

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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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

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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

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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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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

29.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

31.

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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

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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 man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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.