Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mohammed

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

Estrange, L.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Collins, Marva

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

Baldwin, Faith

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Hall, Manly

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Hay, Colin

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Horace

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.