Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Estrange, L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Marie Leneru

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Aristotle

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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.

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