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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Horace

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Thurber, James

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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 is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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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.

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace