Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Howell, Harry

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hay, Colin

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.