Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Solon

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Peter The Great

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thomas, John M.

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.