Motivational Quotes

Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Howell, Harry

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

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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Marie Leneru

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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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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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 that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Estrange, L.

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

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mohammed

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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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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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.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.