Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Character

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

Merikare

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Mohammed

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hay, Colin

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

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Euripides

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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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

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

Confucius

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.