Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Baldwin, Faith

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Estrange, L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mason, John L.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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