Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

2.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

4.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

Baldwin, Faith

6.

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

7.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

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

Thurber, James

9.

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

Thackeray, William M.

10.

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

Collins, Marva

13.

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.

14.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

15.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

16.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

18.

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

Estrange, L.

19.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

20.

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

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

24.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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.

26.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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.

29.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

31.

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

32.

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

Hall, Manly

33.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

34.

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

35.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

36.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

37.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

Mason, John L.

39.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Elihu Burritt

42.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

43.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

44.

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

Merikare

45.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

46.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Reagan, Ronald

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg