Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marie Leneru

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Angelou, Maya

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Guideposts

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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 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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Brown, Les

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.