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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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

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Covey, Stephen R.

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

Buddha

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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