Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Mason, John L.

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Mohammed

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Horace

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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