Motivational Quotes

Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Michener, James A.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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