Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

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

Peter The Great

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Guideposts

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

Voltaire

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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