Motivational Quotes

Character

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

- Peter The Great

Best Quotes about Character

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Solon

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

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Michener, James A.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Merikare

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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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 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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon