Motivational Quotes

Character

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

- Richard Greenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Hay, Colin

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

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

Michener, James A.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

11.

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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Proverb

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Guideposts

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Aristotle

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Solon

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Merikare

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.