Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

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

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Shakespeare, William

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Peter The Great

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

Horace

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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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.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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 like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.