Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

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

Bible

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Gill, Vince

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Peter The Great

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

Thurber, James

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Mason, John L.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

James A. Froude

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Mohammed

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African