Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Solon

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Hall, Manly

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Marva

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Confucius

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Euripides

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.