Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Euripides

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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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 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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Merikare

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Estrange, L.

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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.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Voltaire

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett