Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Joan Didion

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Peter The Great

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

Estrange, L.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bible

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Hay, Colin

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Marie Leneru