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

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Mason, John L.

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Lincoln, Abraham

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James A. Froude

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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 without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace