Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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

Francis Thompson

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

Horace

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

15.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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

17.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

20.

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

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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