Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Freeman, Robert

Best Quotes about Character

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

Collins, Marva

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

Hay, Colin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Buddha

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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

Horace

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

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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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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

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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