Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bible

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Buddha

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.