Motivational Quotes

Character

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

- Elihu Burritt

Best Quotes about Character

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

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Estrange, L.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Horace

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Voltaire

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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