Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Collins, Marva

Best Quotes about Character

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

Michener, James A.

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hall, Manly

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

Solon

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hay, Colin

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goldsmith, Oliver