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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Character Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Character

1.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.
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

3.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Marden, Orison Swett

7.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava

8.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus

10.
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

11.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.

12.
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson

13.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible

14.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Estrange, L.

15.
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

16.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

17.
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African

18.
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.

19.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

20.
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

21.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline

22.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese

23.
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

24.
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.

25.
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion

26.
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
Richard Greenberg

28.
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.
Freeman, Robert

29.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude

30.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius

31.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Robbins, Anthony

32.
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.

33.
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare

34.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord

35.
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew

36.
You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
Thomas, John M.

37.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

38.
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon

39.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

40.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David

41.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Lippmann, Walter

42.
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Leneru, Marie

43.
Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

44.
Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Karr, Alphonse

45.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

46.
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin

47.
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb

48.
The highest qualities of character must be earned.
Abbott, Lyman

49.
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.

50.
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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