Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

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

Guideposts

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

Freeman, Robert

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Estrange, L.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Thurber, James

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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