Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Confucius

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Hay, Colin

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Michener, James A.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Leneru, Marie

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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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