Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Leneru, Marie

Best Quotes about Character

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Proverb

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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

11.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

12.

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

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Bible

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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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

24.

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

Horace

25.

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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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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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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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

31.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

32.

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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Guideposts

36.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

46.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

47.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis Thompson