Motivational Quotes

Character

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hay, Colin

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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.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Solon

28.

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

Euripides

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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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