Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Character

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thurber, James

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

Collins, Marva

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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Michener, James A.

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.