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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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.

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony