Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Frankfurter, Felix

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Horace

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Joan Didion

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

Solon

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

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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.

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Collins, Marva

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.