Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marie Leneru

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

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

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

Joan Didion

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Buddha

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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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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.

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mason, John L.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Michener, James A.