Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

James A. Froude

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.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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

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

Solon

17.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

Confucius

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

22.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

24.

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

25.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Mohammed

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

38.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

41.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

42.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

43.

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

Estrange, L.

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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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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

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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