Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is victory organized.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peter The Great

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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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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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

Estrange, L.

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

Francis Thompson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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