Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

Hay, Colin

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Howell, Harry

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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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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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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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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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