Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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