Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Royal, Darrell

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Mason, John L.

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

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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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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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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