Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Voltaire

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

31.

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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Freeman, Robert

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Collins, Marva

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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