Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Leneru, Marie

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Bible

15.

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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Taylor, Bayard

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

20.

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 superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

23.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

26.

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

27.

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

Joan Didion

28.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

29.

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.

30.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

31.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

33.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

35.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

40.

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

Freeman, Robert

41.

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

42.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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