Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Nathaniel Emmons

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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

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

Euripides

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

43.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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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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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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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