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

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.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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.

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

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

Merikare

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

Mohammed

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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 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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Royal, Darrell

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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James, William

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg