Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

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

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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.

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

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

Solon

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

12.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Peter The Great

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Bible

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

Estrange, L.

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

Petrarch, Francesco