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

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Joan Didion

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Voltaire

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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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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 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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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