Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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.

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.

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

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

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

Freeman, Robert

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hall, Manly

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

19.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

21.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Royal, Darrell

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Solon

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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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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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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Guideposts

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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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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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