Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thackeray, William M.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Euripides

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mason, John L.

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard