Motivational Quotes

Character

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

- Hermann Hesse

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thurber, James

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Character is a victory, not a gift.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

11.

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

Mohammed

12.

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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

20.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Chambers, Oswald

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Horace

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

33.

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

Collins, Marva

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

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Freeman, Robert

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Crisp, Quentin