Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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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

2.

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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Merikare

6.

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

James A. Froude

7.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

14.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

16.

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

17.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

18.

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

Hay, Colin

19.

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

Maritain, Jacques

20.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

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.

22.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

23.

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

Howell, Harry

25.

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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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

27.

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

Hermann Hesse

28.

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

29.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

Francis Thompson

33.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

34.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

38.

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

Collins, Marva

39.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

40.

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

41.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

43.

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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.