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

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

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hall, Manly

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

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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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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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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.

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.