Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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 isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony