Motivational Quotes

Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

- Montale, Eugenio

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

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.

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

Peter The Great

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Mohammed

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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