Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Euripides

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

Proverb

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

Collins, Marva

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Bible

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

10.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Francis Thompson

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Estrange, L.

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William