Motivational Quotes

Character

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Frankfurter, Felix

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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

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

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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