Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Character

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Horace

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

Angelou, Maya

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Buddha

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Confucius

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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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 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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert