Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Bible

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Voltaire

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther