Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Character

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

James A. Froude

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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.