Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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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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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Voltaire

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie