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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Michener, James A.

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

Buddha

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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.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Mohammed

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

Guideposts

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solon

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Voltaire

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African