Motivational Quotes

Character

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Euripides

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.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Solon

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Thackeray, William M.

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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