Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

James A. Froude

10.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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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

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

27.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Mohammed

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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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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