Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Marie Leneru

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

Hay, Colin

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Gill, Vince

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Collins, Marva

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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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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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.