Motivational Quotes

Character

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Character

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Collins, Marva

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

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.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Aristotle

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

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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Solon

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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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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Horace

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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