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 good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Guideposts

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

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

James A. Froude

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Proverb

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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