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

Best Quotes about Character
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Jefferson, Thomas
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Bisset, Jacqueline
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The highest qualities of character must be earned.
Abbott, Lyman
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
Confucius
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
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Parkhurst, Charles H.
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Hepburn, Katharine
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Character is our destiny.
Heraclitus
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Richards, Mary Caroline
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
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
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.
Francis, Clarence
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Michener, James A.
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
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
Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.
Linall Jr. A. L.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Greeley, Horace
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Shakespeare, William
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Hall, Manly
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
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.
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.
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
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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