Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James A. Froude

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

Horace

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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 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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

34.

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 is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Collins, Marva

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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