Motivational Quotes

Character

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Howell, Harry

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Seneca

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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

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

Solon

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

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Thurber, James

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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Integrity has no need of rules.