Motivational Quotes

Character

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Brown, Les

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Aristotle

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

10.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Proverb

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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.