Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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 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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Peter The Great

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Horace

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Merikare

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell