Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mohammed

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

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

13.

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

Bible

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

17.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

24.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

25.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Merikare

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

39.

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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

41.

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.