Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Guideposts

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Brown, Les

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

James A. Froude

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

Michener, James A.

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

Horace

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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 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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.