Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Marie Leneru

13.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Howell, Harry

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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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James, William

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

32.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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

Hall, Manly

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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 is a victory, not a gift.