Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Solon

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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.

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

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

Francis Thompson

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Voltaire

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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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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 simply habit long continued.