Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Character

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

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Voltaire

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

Thoreau, Henry David

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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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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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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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Merikare

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Estrange, L.

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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A man's character is his fate.