Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Mohammed

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Merikare

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Solon

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Brown, Les

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Buddha

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Euripides

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Crisp, Quentin