Motivational Quotes

Character

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Character

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hermann Hesse