Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Royal, Darrell

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Marie Leneru

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Peter The Great

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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 is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mohammed

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Hall, Manly

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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