Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Merikare

Best Quotes about Character

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Elihu Burritt

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Mason, John L.

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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 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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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 impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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A man's character is his fate.