Motivational Quotes
Character
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Best Quotes about Character
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Thackeray, William M.
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Miller, Arthur
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
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
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.
Guideposts
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William
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
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony
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.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Covey, Stephen R.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
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
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
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
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
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith
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
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
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
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.
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
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
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
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Dyke, Henry Van
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
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
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
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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