Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Michener, James A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hay, Colin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nathaniel Emmons

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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.

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

Francis Thompson

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Mason, John L.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Proverb