Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aristotle

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Estrange, L.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio