Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hermann Hesse

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Estrange, L.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Michener, James A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Frankfurter, Felix