Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Howell, Harry

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Michener, James A.

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

Horace

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons