Motivational Quotes

Character

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Character

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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.

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

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Horace

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

Bible

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Thurber, James

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava