Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Estrange, L.

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

10.

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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Solon

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Euripides

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.