Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Elihu Burritt

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Leneru, Marie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Estrange, L.

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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 is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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

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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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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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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