Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Freeman, Robert

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Voltaire

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von