Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Merikare

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.