Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Buddha

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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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.

13.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

19.

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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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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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Voltaire

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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

44.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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'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

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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