Motivational Quotes

Character

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

- Gill, Vince

Best Quotes about Character

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Bible

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

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Thoreau, Henry David

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

15.

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur