Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

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

Mohammed

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

Collins, Marva

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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 don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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