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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Howell, Harry

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.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Collins, Marva

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Horace

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Mohammed

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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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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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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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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