Motivational Quotes

Character

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about 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.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

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.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Solon

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hall, Manly

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

Michener, James A.

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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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 a victory, not a gift.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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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