Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

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

Horace

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Brown, Les

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is our destiny.