Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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.

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

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.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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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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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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Seneca

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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