Motivational Quotes

Character

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Character

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Michener, James A.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Collins, Marva

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

Voltaire

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline