Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Elihu Burritt

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

28.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Mohammed

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Estrange, L.

33.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Collins, Marva

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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