Motivational Quotes

Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mohammed

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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

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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 man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Horace

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

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Francis Thompson

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

Marie Leneru

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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