Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Proverb

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Mohammed

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Solon

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Fitzwater, P. B.