Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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

11.

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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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

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

29.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

30.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

32.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

37.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hay, Colin

43.

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

45.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Elmer G. Letterman