Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is our destiny.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Proverb

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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