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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Hermann Hesse

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Horace

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Michener, James A.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Voltaire

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Mohammed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Guideposts

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Solon

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Seneca

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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.