Motivational Quotes

Character

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Peter The Great

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hall, Manly

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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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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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

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Leneru, Marie

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Chambers, Oswald

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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