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

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

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.

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Seneca

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Michener, James A.

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

Thurber, James

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Voltaire

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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 is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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