Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

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

Michener, James A.

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

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Royal, Darrell

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William