Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hay, Colin

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Collins, Marva

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

Voltaire

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

Seneca

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aristotle

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Buddha

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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.

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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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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William