Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Estrange, L.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thurber, James

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Guideposts

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

Solon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Brown, Les

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Seneca

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Michener, James A.

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

Horace

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Merikare

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James A. Froude

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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