Motivational Quotes

Character

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Solon

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

Euripides

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

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

Mason, John L.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Horace

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von