Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Royal, Darrell

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Confucius

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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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