Motivational Quotes

Character

A rich man has no need of character.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Character

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Estrange, L.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.