Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Horace

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Michener, James A.

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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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Aquinas, St. 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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman