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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

12.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Guideposts

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

44.

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

Peter The Great

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

Seneca

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen