Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

James A. Froude

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Proverb

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Mohammed

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

Royal, Darrell

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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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