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

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Horace

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Estrange, L.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Elihu Burritt

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

21.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

28.

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

29.

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

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Confucius

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Hall, Manly

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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