Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Karr, Alphonse

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.

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

Hall, Manly

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Thomas, John M.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Lois McMaster Bujold