Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Baldwin, Faith

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Hay, Colin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.