Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Guideposts

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mohammed

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Solon

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Horace

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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