Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Estrange, L.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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.

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Joan Didion

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Solon

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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