Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mason, John L.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

10.

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

11.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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

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

19.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Voltaire

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

32.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

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.

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

Solon

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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 can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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

44.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver