Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mohammed

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Bible

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Francis Thompson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus