Motivational Quotes

Character

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Voltaire

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

Mohammed

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

Gill, Vince

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

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Thackeray, William M.

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Solon

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

Francis Thompson

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hall, Manly

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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

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

Confucius

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mason, John L.

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thurber, James

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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