Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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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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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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mason, John L.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

James A. Froude

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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