Motivational Quotes

Character

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Confucius

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

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Hermann Hesse

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

25.

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

Royal, Darrell

26.

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.

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Howell, Harry

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

32.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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.