Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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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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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 is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Bible

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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude