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

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Guideposts

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Baldwin, Faith

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

James A. Froude

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Hall, Manly

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African