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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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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

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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

Aristotle

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Solon

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.