Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Thomas, John M.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Thackeray, William M.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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 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

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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Confucius

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Hay, Colin

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Bible

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

Hall, Manly

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.