Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Solon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marie Leneru

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Freeman, Robert

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Hay, Colin

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen