Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Leneru, Marie

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

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

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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.

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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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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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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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