Motivational Quotes

Character

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Character

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Thomas, John M.

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.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Euripides

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Michener, James A.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Voltaire

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hall, Manly

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Merikare

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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

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

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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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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.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.