Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Best Quotes about Character

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Lippmann, Walter

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Chambers, Oswald

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Horace

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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

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Merikare

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Mohammed

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo