Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Bible

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

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

Royal, Darrell

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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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua