Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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 builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Crisp, Quentin

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

James A. Froude

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Mohammed

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus 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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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