Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mason, John L.

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

Peter The Great

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Estrange, L.

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Freeman, Robert

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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