Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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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

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Estrange, L.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Buddha

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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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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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Bible

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Thomas, John M.

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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

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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio