Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thurber, James

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hall, Manly

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

Hay, Colin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Hermann Hesse

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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A rich man has no need of character.