Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marie Leneru

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Nathaniel Emmons

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Royal, Darrell

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Guideposts

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James, William

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.