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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Francis Thompson

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Bible

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

Mohammed

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Brown, Les

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Solon

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Aristotle

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Angelou, Maya

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Proverb, Chinese