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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

11.

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

Thurber, James

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

Seneca

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin