Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

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

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Guideposts

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

21.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Freeman, Robert

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Royal, Darrell

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Mohammed

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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