Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

James A. Froude

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

Buddha

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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