Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Leneru, Marie

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

Euripides

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Estrange, L.

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Voltaire

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Michener, James A.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Solon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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