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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Collins, Marva

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

Chambers, Oswald

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.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

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

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

Merikare

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Confucius

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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