Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

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

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Euripides

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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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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 real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Collins, Marva

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Solon

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, 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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Estrange, L.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

James A. Froude

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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