Motivational Quotes

Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

James A. Froude

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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

Thurber, James

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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 character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Bible

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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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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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Estrange, L.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.