Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Character

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Horace

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

Hay, Colin

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Elmer G. Letterman

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Solon

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Karr, Alphonse