Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Voltaire

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Solon

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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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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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Estrange, L.

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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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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thomas, John M.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

James A. Froude

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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