Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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.

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Solon

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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

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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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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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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Hermann Hesse

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Bible

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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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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.