Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Horace

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Voltaire

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Peter The Great

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Guideposts

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African