Motivational Quotes

Character

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Best Quotes about Character

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

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

Michener, James A.

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

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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 must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

34.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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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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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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