Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Proverb

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

Hay, Colin

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.