Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Howell, Harry

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

Solon

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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 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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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 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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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

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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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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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald