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

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.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Thackeray, William M.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Guideposts

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

Bible

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Francis Thompson

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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