Motivational Quotes

Character

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

- Marie Henri Beyle

Best Quotes about Character

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

Angelou, Maya

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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.

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

Merikare

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Brown, Les

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Francis Thompson

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Hay, Colin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.