Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Mason, John L.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Elihu Burritt

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Mohammed

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

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

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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Maritain, Jacques

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hay, Colin

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bible

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.