Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Freeman, Robert

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Solon

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hermann Hesse

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Collins, Marva