Motivational Quotes

Character

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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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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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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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 are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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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

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

Mohammed

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.