Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Seneca

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Karr, Alphonse

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Michener, James A.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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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 don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Hall, Manly

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)