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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mohammed

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Collins, Marva

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Mason, John L.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Freeman, Robert

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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

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

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

Bible

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Peter The Great

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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