Motivational Quotes

Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Karr, Alphonse

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Horace

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Collins, Marva

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Mohammed

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio