Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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

Euripides

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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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.

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Joan Didion

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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

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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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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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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

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