Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Aristotle

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Estrange, L.

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

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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

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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.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mohammed

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Voltaire

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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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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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.