Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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.

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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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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

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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 are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Bible

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hermann Hesse

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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.