Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Francis Thompson

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

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Voltaire

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

Gill, Vince

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Estrange, L.

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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Hall, Manly

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Thomas, John M.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Confucius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mason, John L.

31.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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