Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Proverb

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace