Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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