Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Hay, Colin

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Maritain, Jacques

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Estrange, L.

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Merikare

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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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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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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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 four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Hall, Manly

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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo