Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Howell, Harry

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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

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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mason, John L.

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

Euripides

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Solon

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Hall, Manly

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo