Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Howell, Harry

Best Quotes about Character

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Reagan, Ronald

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Hall, Manly

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

Collins, Marva

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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.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio