Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marie Leneru

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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.

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

Solon

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Euripides

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Voltaire

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mohammed

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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