Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Joan Didion

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Virgil

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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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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Horace

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Confucius

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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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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

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