Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thurber, James

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Horace

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Michener, James A.

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Peter The Great

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Seneca

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb