Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is a victory, not a gift.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Euripides

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

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Horace

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Solon

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Hay, Colin