Motivational Quotes

Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Royal, Darrell

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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

Peter The Great

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mohammed

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

Lincoln, Abraham