Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Estrange, L.

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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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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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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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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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 like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

Leneru, Marie