Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Character

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Confucius

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

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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.

Confucius

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Seneca

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Collins, Marva

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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.