Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hay, Colin

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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.