Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Elihu Burritt

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Howell, Harry

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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