Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Character

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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.

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

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Baldwin, Faith

18.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Horace

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.