Motivational Quotes

Character

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Royal, Darrell

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Marva

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hermann Hesse