Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Horace

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

Estrange, L.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Buddha

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Bible

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

Hay, Colin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von