Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

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.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Michener, James A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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 take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Bible

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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