Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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.

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

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Seneca

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Horace

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Merikare

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James A. Froude

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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.