Motivational Quotes

Character

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Solon

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Crisp, Quentin

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Collins, Marva

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Hay, Colin

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

Marie Leneru

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony