Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Character

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Howell, Harry

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

Merikare

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

Hermann Hesse

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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

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.

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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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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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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.

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

33.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

41.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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