Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Elihu Burritt

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Euripides

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gill, Vince

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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Hay, Colin

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

Estrange, L.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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

Buddha

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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