Motivational Quotes

Character

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

- Elihu Burritt

Best Quotes about Character

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Merikare

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

Voltaire

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

Mason, John L.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hay, Colin

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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