Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

11.

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

12.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

13.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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 builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Bible

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hay, Colin

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

Voltaire

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Guideposts

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

44.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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