Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mohammed

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Bible

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.