Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Collins, Marva

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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 happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

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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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle