Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Michener, James A.

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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.

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

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.