Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Chambers, Oswald

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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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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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michener, James A.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Hay, Colin

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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