Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Character

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

Horace

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

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.

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

Proverb

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Estrange, L.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

Michener, James A.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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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

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

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya