Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

Merikare

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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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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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 is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Hall, Manly

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

Michener, James A.

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von