Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mason, John L.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Marie Leneru

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

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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.

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Solon

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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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.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Joan Didion

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Aristotle

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