Motivational Quotes

Character

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Character

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

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

Peter The Great

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.