Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

James A. Froude

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

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Solon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Hermann Hesse

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker 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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mohammed

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)