Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Euripides

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

Gill, Vince

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Guideposts

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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.

James, William

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Royal, Darrell

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Solon

27.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

34.

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 must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Richter, Jean Paul

48.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic