Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Gill, Vince

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Francis Thompson

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Guideposts

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Mohammed

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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