Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Seneca

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Buddha

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

Marie Leneru

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hay, Colin

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

Brown, Les

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre