Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Nathaniel Emmons

Best Quotes about Character

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Solon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Leneru, Marie

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Mason, John L.

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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 is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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