Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hay, Colin

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thurber, James

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crisp, Quentin

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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