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

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lippmann, Walter

10.

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

11.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

14.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

15.

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

16.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

17.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

18.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

22.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

23.

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

Buddha

24.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

25.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

26.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

31.

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

32.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Marie Leneru

37.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

38.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

41.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

42.

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

43.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

44.

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

45.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

46.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

47.

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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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