Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Mohammed

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.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Bible

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

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Horace

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Seneca

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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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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