Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Solon

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

Nathaniel Emmons

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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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 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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Michener, James A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord