Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Confucius

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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