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

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Greeley, Horace

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Horace

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Peter The Great

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

Royal, Darrell

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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.

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

Hall, Manly

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Michener, James A.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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