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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

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.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Hermann Hesse

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Seneca

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hay, Colin

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Peter The Great

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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 is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.