Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Mason, John L.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Guideposts

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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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

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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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