Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Seneca

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

Proverb

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Francis Thompson

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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.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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 is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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