Motivational Quotes

Character

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

- Leneru, Marie

Best Quotes about Character

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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.

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Estrange, L.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Proverb

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Solon

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Mason, John L.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Aristotle

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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