Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Character

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Merikare

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

10.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

11.

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

Peter The Great

12.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

Mohammed

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Lippmann, Walter

22.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

23.

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

Estrange, L.

24.

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

Chambers, Oswald

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

Solon

27.

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

28.

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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

30.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

31.

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

32.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

33.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

34.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

35.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

36.

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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

39.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

42.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

43.

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

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

45.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

46.

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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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.