Motivational Quotes

Character

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

- Elihu Burritt

Best Quotes about Character

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Michener, James A.

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

Collins, Marva

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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 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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Mohammed

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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.