Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Francis Thompson

Best Quotes about Character

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Michener, James A.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Merikare

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

Thurber, James

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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 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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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.