Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Hermann Hesse

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

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Hay, Colin

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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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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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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

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Francis Thompson

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.