Motivational Quotes

Character

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

- Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

Solon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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.

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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

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Horace

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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 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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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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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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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African