Motivational Quotes

Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Leneru, Marie

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

James A. Froude

10.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

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

Solon

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

16.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

17.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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.

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

Buddha

23.

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.

24.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

25.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

28.

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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

31.

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

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

Hay, Colin

34.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

Collins, Marva

39.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

44.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.