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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Michener, James A.

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

Horace

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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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Estrange, L.

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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