Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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.

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

Proverb

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Joan Didion

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Bible

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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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.

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.