Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Proverb

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.

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

Freeman, Robert

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

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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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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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Aristotle

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Marie Leneru

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques