Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Solon

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

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

Michener, James A.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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 with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

James A. Froude

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb