Motivational Quotes
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.

Best Quotes about Character
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
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
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
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
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
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
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Gill, Vince
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
Arran, Earl of
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
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
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
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.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Greeley, Horace
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Lincoln, Abraham
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Menander
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
Elihu Burritt
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
Elmer G. Letterman
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Richter, Jean Paul
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Crisp, Quentin
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
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.
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
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
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Proverb
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Peter The Great
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Angelou, Maya
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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