Motivational Quotes

Character

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

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

Freeman, Robert

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Mason, John L.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Guideposts

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Aristotle

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

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

Howell, Harry

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

Michener, James A.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.