Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Freeman, Robert

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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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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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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Voltaire

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David