Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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 higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Seneca

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas