Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Best Quotes about Character

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Voltaire

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

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hay, Colin

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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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

Mason, John L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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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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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Michener, James A.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Brown, Les

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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 is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Elihu Burritt

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.