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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Marie Leneru

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

Confucius

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

Peter The Great

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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.

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

Michener, James A.

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

31.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Solon

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Seneca

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

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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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius