Motivational Quotes

Character

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

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

James A. Froude

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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.

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

Collins, Marva

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Mohammed

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Voltaire

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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 a victory, not a gift.

20.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

28.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

32.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Merikare

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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