Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

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

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Hay, Colin

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

Guideposts

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Estrange, 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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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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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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

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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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.