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

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

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.

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

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

12.

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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

16.

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

James A. Froude

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

Mohammed

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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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

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Hall, Manly

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

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Mason, John L.

37.

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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

Horace

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

42.

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

Elihu Burritt

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Crisp, Quentin