Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Karr, Alphonse

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Estrange, L.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Guideposts

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Peter The Great

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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