Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Merikare

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

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.

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

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

12.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

13.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Bible

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

Mason, John L.

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hay, Colin

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Guideposts

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

31.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

48.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo