Motivational Quotes
Character
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.
Best Quotes about Character
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
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
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
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
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
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Proverb, Chinese
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
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
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver
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.
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
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Hall, Manly
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Chambers, Oswald
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
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.
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
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
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
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
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.
Royal, Darrell
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb
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
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
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.
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
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.
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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