Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leneru, Marie

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

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Solon

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

Guideposts

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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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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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon