Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

12.

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

13.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

14.

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

Proverb

15.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Collins, Marva

20.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

21.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

28.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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

30.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

31.

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

Leneru, Marie

32.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

Marie Leneru

34.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

39.

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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

43.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

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

Mohammed

45.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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