Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

James A. Froude

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

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

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.

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solon

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hermann Hesse

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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