Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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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 higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Hay, Colin

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Mason, John L.

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hermann Hesse

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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 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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert