Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Merikare

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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.

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

Freeman, Robert

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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

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

Marie Leneru

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Estrange, L.

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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 only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Hall, Manly

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Bible

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

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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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Covey, Stephen R.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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.