Motivational Quotes

Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Estrange, L.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas, John M.

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bible

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

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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.