Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Buddha

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

Estrange, L.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Guideposts

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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

11.

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

Bible

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

29.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

32.

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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Horace

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Solon

49.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus