Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mohammed

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hall, Manly

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.