Motivational Quotes

Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Royal, Darrell

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Euripides

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Estrange, L.

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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