Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Michener, James A.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Peter The Great

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Marie Leneru

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

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.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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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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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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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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Estrange, L.

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

Thurber, James

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hall, Manly

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Hermann Hesse

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Howell, Harry

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

Gill, Vince

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.