Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Guideposts

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Marie Leneru

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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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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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.

Taylor, Bayard

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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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