Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hay, Colin

Best Quotes about Character

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

Peter The Great

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

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.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mohammed

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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