Motivational Quotes

Character

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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 is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Euripides

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.