Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Character

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Guideposts

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

Hall, Manly

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Estrange, L.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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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

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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

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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