Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Howell, Harry

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Mohammed

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

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hermann Hesse

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.