Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Solon

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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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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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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

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Brown, Les

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

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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