Motivational Quotes

Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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.

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Solon

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Buddha

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Royal, Darrell

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mohammed

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von