Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Royal, Darrell

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

Seneca

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Solon

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Horace

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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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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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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.