Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Solon

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

James A. Froude

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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