Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bisset, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'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.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Estrange, L.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Euripides

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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Collins, Marva

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

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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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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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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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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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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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.

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David