Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Solon

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hermann Hesse

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Michener, James A.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hay, Colin

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle