Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

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

James A. Froude

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

Aristotle

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Merikare

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Thomas, John 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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Thurber, James

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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 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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.