Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Character

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

Mason, John L.

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

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Leneru, Marie

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Francis Thompson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Guideposts

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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