Motivational Quotes

Character

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Michener, James A.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Brown, Les

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Collins, Marva

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

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

Hall, Manly