Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Michener, James A.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Angelou, Maya

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Joan Didion

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Merikare

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

Royal, Darrell

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

42.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Keller, Helen

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett