Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Bible

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

Mohammed

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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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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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Peter The Great

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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

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

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

Horace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

James A. Froude

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Hay, Colin

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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