Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Marie Leneru

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, Faith

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Seneca

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Guideposts

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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