Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Solon

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Mohammed

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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 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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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.

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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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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.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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