Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Thurber, James

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Royal, Darrell

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Marie Leneru

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mohammed

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.