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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Estrange, L.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Collins, Marva

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Guideposts

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.