Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chambers, Oswald

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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

Francis Thompson

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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

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

Proverb

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Estrange, L.

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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 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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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Solon

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo