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

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

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

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

Howell, Harry

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Peter The Great

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

Freeman, Robert

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Reagan, Ronald

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Mason, John L.

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

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.