Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Reagan, Ronald

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hall, Manly

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

Marie Leneru

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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