Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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 superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Solon

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 look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

30.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Mohammed

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Voltaire