Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

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

Solon

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.

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

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

Peter The Great

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Collins, Marva

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

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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 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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hay, Colin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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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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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