Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Euripides

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Greeley, Horace

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Estrange, L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Seneca

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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.

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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.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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.