Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Howell, Harry

Best Quotes about Character

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Voltaire

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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 impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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 is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Joan Didion

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Mohammed

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von