Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chambers, Oswald

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Hall, Manly

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

Horace

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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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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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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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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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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