Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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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

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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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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 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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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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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.