Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Joan Didion

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Estrange, L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collins, Marva

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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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

11.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

Freeman, Robert

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bible

31.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

41.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Aristotle

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

45.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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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