Motivational Quotes
Character
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.

Best Quotes about Character
The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon
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
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
Lubbock, Sir John
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
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
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
Pandita, Saskya
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.
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
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
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
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.
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
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Disraeli, Benjamin
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
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
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Rohn, Jim
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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.
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.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
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.
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou
Akhenaton
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter
Character is a victory, not a gift.
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Miller, Arthur
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
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
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
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
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.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
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