Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Hay, Colin

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Merikare

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Confucius