Motivational Quotes

Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

Michener, James A.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

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

Joan Didion

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

Elihu Burritt

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Horace

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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