Motivational Quotes

Character

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Character

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Brown, Les

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.

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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Manly

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Confucius

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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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

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

Estrange, L.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Buddha

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava