Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Elmer G. Letterman

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Mohammed

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Aristotle

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Horace