Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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.

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

Hay, Colin

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Collins, Marva

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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Michener, James A.

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Seneca

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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 is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.