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

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

Mohammed

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

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

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Estrange, L.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Jefferson, Thomas

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

10.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

30.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Collins, Marva

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

Guideposts

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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