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

Voltaire

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Shakespeare, William

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Estrange, L.

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

Merikare

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Francis Thompson

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

James A. Froude

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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 buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence