Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Angelou, Maya

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Solon

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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Horace

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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