Motivational Quotes

Character

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

- Smith, Roy L.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

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'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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb, Chinese

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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 happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Mohammed

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Bible

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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