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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Michener, James A.

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Hay, Colin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Guideposts

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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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