Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is his fate.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Solon

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

Merikare

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Collins, Marva

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Mason, John L.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Francis Thompson

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.