Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Proverb

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

Solon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

11.

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

Seneca

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Guideposts

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Horace

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leneru, Marie

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.