Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Confucius

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

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

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.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas, John M.

16.

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.

17.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Hall, Manly

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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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.

36.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

45.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Horace

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van