Motivational Quotes

Character

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Character

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

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

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

Bible

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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 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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Peter The Great

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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 can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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

Freeman, Robert

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Guideposts

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

Proverb

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