Motivational Quotes
Character
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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
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Frankfurter, Felix
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Marden, Orison Swett
To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
Marie Leneru
Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.
Proverb, African
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
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
Proverb
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
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.
Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Fitzwater, P. B.
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.
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
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
Hill, Napoleon
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.
Hay, Colin
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.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Brown, Les
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Disraeli, Benjamin
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
Bible
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.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
Proverb
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.
The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.
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
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
If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.
Mohammed
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
Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Merikare
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Washington, Booker T.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
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
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
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
Francis Thompson
Too many lives are needed to make just one.
Montale, Eugenio
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Proverb, Chinese
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
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
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
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