Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

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

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Marie Leneru

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Mohammed

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.