Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is our destiny.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

James A. Froude

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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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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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

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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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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

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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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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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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

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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Estrange, L.