Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Confucius

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Maritain, Jacques

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Horace

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.