Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nathaniel Emmons

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Confucius

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

11.

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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

23.

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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Mohammed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Greeley, Horace

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

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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant