Motivational Quotes

Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Character

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Seneca

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Voltaire

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Guideposts

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther