Motivational Quotes

Character

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chambers, Oswald

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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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

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

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James A. Froude

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Michener, James A.

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

Aristotle

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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 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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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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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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