Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is victory organized.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Voltaire

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

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Estrange, L.

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

Mohammed

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

Hall, Manly

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Proverb

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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

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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