Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Mason, John L.

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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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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 cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Horace

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson