Motivational Quotes

Character

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

- Leneru, Marie

Best Quotes about Character

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elihu Burritt

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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Thurber, James

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Bible

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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