Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Character

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

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hay, Colin

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Voltaire

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

Mohammed

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

Collins, Marva

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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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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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James A. Froude

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

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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

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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