Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Peter The Great

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

25.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Collins, Marva

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

Merikare

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Horace

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)