Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Estrange, L.

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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Collins, Marva

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bible

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

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Solon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mason, John L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Freeman, Robert

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Brown, Les

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

James A. Froude