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

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Thomas, John M.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Greeley, Horace

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

12.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.

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

Aristotle

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

17.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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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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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

22.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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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

26.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

27.

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

28.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

29.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

30.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

31.

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

32.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

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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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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

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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