Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Taylor, Bayard

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Euripides

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Estrange, L.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Marie Leneru

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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