Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Marie Leneru

Best Quotes about Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Greeley, Horace

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

Guideposts

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

Francis Thompson

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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

20.

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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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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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

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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

25.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

30.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

34.

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

Hermann Hesse

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

43.

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

Mohammed

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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 happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.