Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Howell, Harry

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

Confucius

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Guideposts

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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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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

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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

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mason, John L.

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

James A. Froude

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

Michener, James A.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Estrange, L.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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