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

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Buddha

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

Voltaire

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

Solon

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Euripides

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.