Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Hall, Manly

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Mohammed

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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