Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

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

Gill, Vince

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Thoreau, Henry David

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Seneca

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Freeman, Robert

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collins, Marva

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

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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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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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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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