Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Buddha

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Euripides

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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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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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

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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