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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elihu Burritt

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.

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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 measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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

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

Euripides

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

32.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Michener, James A.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Mohammed

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Aristotle

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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