Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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 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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Michener, James A.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Solon