Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Character

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Euripides

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

Guideposts

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mohammed

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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 is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buddha

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

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon