Motivational Quotes

Character

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Horace

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Thomas, John M.

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buddha

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