Motivational Quotes

Character

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Hermann Hesse

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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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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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Aristotle

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Merikare

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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