Motivational Quotes

Character

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Character

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Michener, James A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.