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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Francis Thompson

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

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Angelou, Maya

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Leneru, Marie

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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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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mohammed

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

James A. Froude

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin