Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

James A. Froude

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Guideposts

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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

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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

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

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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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.

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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