Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

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

Peter The Great

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

Leneru, Marie

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Estrange, L.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Hermann Hesse

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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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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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Buddha

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Guideposts

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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