Motivational Quotes

Character

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

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

Marie Leneru

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Buddha

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Voltaire

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mason, John L.

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

Aristotle

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

Royal, Darrell

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hay, Colin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.