Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mohammed

10.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

11.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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 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

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

Seneca

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

23.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

38.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Thomas, John M.

41.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

43.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buddha

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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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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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