Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Royal, Darrell

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Voltaire

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Horace

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Merikare

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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