Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Chambers, Oswald

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Estrange, L.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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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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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hermann Hesse