Motivational Quotes

Character

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thomas, John M.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Hay, Colin

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

Michener, James A.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Horace

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

14.

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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

29.

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

30.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

47.

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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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.

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

Mohammed