Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mohammed

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Solon

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

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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 I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, 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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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.

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.