Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hermann Hesse

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.

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

Horace

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

12.

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

13.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

14.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

16.

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

17.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

18.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

19.

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

20.

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

James A. Froude

21.

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

Marie Leneru

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

27.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

28.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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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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

39.

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

40.

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

Estrange, L.

41.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

Thurber, James

44.

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

45.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

46.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

47.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

48.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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