Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thomas, John M.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Angelou, Maya

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Mohammed

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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

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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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