Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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.

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

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

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Thurber, James

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Manly

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Seneca

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar