Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Merikare

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Estrange, L.

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

Guideposts

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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