Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Francis Thompson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Howell, Harry

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greeley, Horace

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

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

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hermann Hesse

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Guideposts

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.