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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Reagan, Ronald

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Peter The Great

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Solon

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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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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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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's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Guideposts

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Seneca