Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hall, Manly

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Buddha

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Royal, Darrell

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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 a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Hay, Colin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Mason, John L.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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