Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Maritain, Jacques

Best Quotes about Character

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Thurber, James

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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.

Merikare

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Gill, Vince

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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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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.