Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Baldwin, Faith

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Solon

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

Marie Leneru

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Confucius

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Collins, Marva

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

Peter The Great

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Michener, James A.

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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