Motivational Quotes

Character

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Character

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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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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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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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thurber, James

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

46.

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

Peter The Great

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince