Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Nathaniel Emmons

Best Quotes about Character

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

Crisp, Quentin

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mohammed

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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

11.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

17.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Baldwin, Faith

20.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

21.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joan Didion

27.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

30.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

31.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul