Motivational Quotes

Character

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Character

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

James A. Froude

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

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Merikare

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Collins, Marva

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Mohammed

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.