Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Mohammed

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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

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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

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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

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Mason, John L.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bible

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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