Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Character

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Estrange, L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Buddha

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Solon

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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