Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Crisp, Quentin

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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.

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

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

Joan Didion

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.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Collins, Marva

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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

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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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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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

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

Hay, Colin

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mohammed

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

Merikare

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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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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

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

James A. Froude

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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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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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