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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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.

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.

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

James A. Froude

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

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

Solon

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Michener, James A.

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thurber, James

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hermann Hesse

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Hall, Manly

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Fitzwater, P. B.