Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Mohammed

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Michener, James A.

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hay, Colin

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mason, John L.

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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