Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Character

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Chambers, Oswald

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

10.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

James A. Froude

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

Seneca

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Solon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Buddha

29.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Horace

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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