Motivational Quotes

Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Howell, Harry

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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.

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

Bible

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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 don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Mason, John L.

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Thurber, James

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

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Les

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

Peter The Great

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Francis Thompson

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.