Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

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.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

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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

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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 formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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

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

Confucius

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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