Motivational Quotes

Character

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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.

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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

16.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

18.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

19.

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

20.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

44.

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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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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.

48.

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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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