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

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Collins, Marva

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

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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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

11.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

13.

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

Proverb

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Howell, Harry

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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 cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

32.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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

38.

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

Euripides

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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