Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Character

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Royal, Darrell

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Marie Leneru

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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