Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Character

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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.

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

Royal, Darrell

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Estrange, L.

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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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

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Michener, James A.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Horace

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Hall, Manly

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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