Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Character

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

James A. Froude

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Greeley, Horace

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Brown, Les

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius