Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Francis Thompson

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Seneca

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Guideposts

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horace

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.