Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is victory organized.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Mason, John L.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Seneca

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Francis Thompson

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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.