Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

12.

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

Francis Thompson

13.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, John M.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Aristotle

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hermann Hesse

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.