Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Joan Didion

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Peter The Great

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Michener, James A.

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Proverb

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru