Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bisset, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Crisp, Quentin

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Michener, James A.

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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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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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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 you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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