Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Royal, Darrell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

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

Leneru, Marie

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

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Hermann Hesse

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Voltaire

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von