Motivational Quotes

Character

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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.

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

Francis Thompson

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.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Seneca

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

Reagan, Ronald

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Peter The Great

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

18.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

26.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

27.

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Proverb

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

Guideposts

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

46.

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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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.

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

Marie Leneru