Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Best Quotes about Character

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Solon

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Michener, James A.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Guideposts

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

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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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hall, Manly

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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.

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon