Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Marie Leneru

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

James A. Froude

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Voltaire

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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