Motivational Quotes

Character

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Character

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

James A. Froude

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

Guideposts

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Royal, Darrell

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

26.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Voltaire

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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