Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Karr, Alphonse

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Bible

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

10.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

11.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

12.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

13.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

18.

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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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 higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Mohammed

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

30.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

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.

36.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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

40.

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

Brown, Les

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Solon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mason, John L.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald