Motivational Quotes

Character

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Estrange, L.

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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

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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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.

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava