Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

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.

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

Voltaire

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

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

Proverb

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hay, Colin

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Horace

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Thurber, James

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

Solon

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James A. Froude

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.