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

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Francis Thompson

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

Merikare

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

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

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

Thurber, James

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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Michener, James A.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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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

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

Horace

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.