Motivational Quotes
Character
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Best Quotes about Character
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
A man's character is his fate.
Heraclitus
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
Thurber, James
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed
Character is victory organized.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
Limbaugh, Rush
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Voltaire
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Goldsmith, Oliver
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
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
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
Reagan, Ronald
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Gardner, Ava
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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
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
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
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
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
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
Integrity has no need of rules.
Camus, Albert
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Chesterfield, Lord
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
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
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.
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Baruch, Bernard M.
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
Virgil
We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
Thoreau, Henry David
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
Taylor, Bayard
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.
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
Mason, John L.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius
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
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch, Francesco
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
A rich man has no need of character.
Proverb, Hebrew
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Bounds, E. M.
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.
Character development is the aim of education.
O'Shea
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
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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