Motivational Quotes

Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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.

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

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

Michener, James A.

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Confucius

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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maritain, Jacques

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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 a victory, not a gift.

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua