Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Character

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Francis Thompson

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Euripides

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

Hall, Manly

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, 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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thomas, John M.

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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.

Marie Leneru

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

James A. Froude

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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

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

Bible

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is victory organized.