Motivational Quotes

Character

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nathaniel Emmons

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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