Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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

Seneca

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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 that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Shakespeare, William