Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Merikare

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Michener, James A.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

James A. Froude

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

Hay, Colin

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

18.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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.

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin