Motivational Quotes

Character

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

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

Aristotle

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hermann Hesse

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

18.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Estrange, L.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

32.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Shakespeare, William

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle