Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Aristotle

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.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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

32.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Horace

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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