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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
Character Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Character

1.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul

3.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony

4.
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

5.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Wooden, John

6.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

7.
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Buddha

8.
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.

9.
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb

10.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

11.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix

13.
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

14.
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus

15.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.
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

17.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Collins, Marva

18.
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb

19.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.

20.
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.

21.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Baldwin, Faith

22.
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.

23.
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

24.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

28.
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

29.
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas

30.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les

31.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African

33.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

34.
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush

35.
The highest qualities of character must be earned.
Abbott, Lyman

36.
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

37.
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.

38.
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Milton, John

39.
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

40.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

42.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed

44.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Hall, Manly

45.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons

46.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

47.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord

48.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese

49.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

50.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava


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