Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Collins, Marva

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Estrange, L.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Guideposts

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett