Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bible

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Merikare

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

10.

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.

11.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

12.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

13.

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.

14.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

15.

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

16.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

17.

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

Peter The Great

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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.

21.

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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow 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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

25.

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

Francis Thompson

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

Thomas, John M.

27.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

32.

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

33.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

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

41.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

43.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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.

47.

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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David