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

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Aristotle

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Mohammed

18.

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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Estrange, L.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hay, Colin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

50.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.