Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

Mason, John L.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Greeley, Horace

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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.

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Royal, Darrell

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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

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

Solon

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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 must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.