Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Confucius

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Peter The Great

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander