Motivational Quotes

Character

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Brown, Les

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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 his fate.

Heraclitus

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hall, Manly

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bible

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von