Motivational Quotes

Character

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Character

1.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

2.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

3.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

5.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Collins, Marva

9.

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

Buddha

11.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

14.

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

15.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

17.

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

18.

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

19.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

22.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

28.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Mohammed

30.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

31.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

32.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

33.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

35.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

37.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

39.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

43.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

44.

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

Horace

45.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

46.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

47.

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

48.

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

Merikare

49.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

50.

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

Lincoln, Abraham