Motivational Quotes

Character

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Mohammed

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Horace

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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