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

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Collins, Marva

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

Bible

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman