Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thurber, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Merikare

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

12.

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Michener, James A.

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

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Peter The Great

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James A. Froude

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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 more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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