Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Euripides

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Howell, Harry

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

11.

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

12.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

14.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

15.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

16.

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

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

22.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

23.

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

Hall, Manly

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

27.

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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

30.

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.

31.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

35.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Hay, Colin

37.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Bible

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.