Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Estrange, L.

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

Mason, John L.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe