Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chambers, Oswald

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Francis Thompson

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Euripides

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hall, Manly

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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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.

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

Proverb

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham