Motivational Quotes

Character

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Francis Thompson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Estrange, L.

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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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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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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Eliot, George

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Seneca

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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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.

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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hall, Manly

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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