Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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.

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

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

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

Elihu Burritt

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

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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