Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Merikare

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

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

Mohammed

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Leneru, Marie

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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 like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Estrange, L.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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