Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Solon

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

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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.

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

Guideposts

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Voltaire

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb