Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Thurber, James

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

Estrange, L.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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 real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Chesterfield, Lord