Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Crisp, Quentin

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter The Great

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Bible

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Proverb

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Estrange, L.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.