Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Nathaniel Emmons

Best Quotes about Character

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hall, Manly

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Peter The Great

18.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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.

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

36.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Solon

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

Royal, Darrell

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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Proverb

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon