Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Taylor, Bayard

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.

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Solon

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

Marie Leneru

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

Freeman, Robert

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Thomas, John M.

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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

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Collins, Marva

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.