Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

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

Collins, Marva

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.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Thomas, John M.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Estrange, L.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Joan Didion

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

Michener, James A.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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