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

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

Horace

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Peter The Great

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Elihu Burritt

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Integrity has no need of rules.