Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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.

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Horace

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

Hay, Colin

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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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von