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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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.

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

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

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Merikare

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline