Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Freeman, Robert

Best Quotes about Character

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

Merikare

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Thackeray, William M.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Michener, James A.

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

Voltaire

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

Seneca

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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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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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Euripides

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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