Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Gill, Vince

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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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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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 can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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.