Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Chambers, Oswald

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Voltaire

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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 can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Mason, John L.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb