Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Guideposts

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mohammed

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

James A. Froude

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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