Motivational Quotes

Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Francis Thompson

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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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.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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

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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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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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Seneca

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Reagan, Ronald