Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Euripides

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Peter The Great

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Michener, James A.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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 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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von