Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Mohammed

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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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Seneca

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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